Sport for All Committee

Dan Roddick (USA)

Chair

Dan "Stork" Roddick is a long-time disc sport champion and organizer in both the U.S. and internationally. Stork was an early star of the game of Ultimate with college champion Rutgers University (with a record of 45-1), and he was a winner of national and world championships in individual events including disc golf, freestyle, and accuracy. Stork was one of the driving forces behind promoting and supporting Ultimate and all other disc sports through his role as head of Wham-O’s sports marketing department from 1975-96, ensuring sufficient financial support for the organizing bodies in the USA early in their existence. Stork was also instrumental in the international arena, serving as World Flying Disc Federation President from 1986-1992, Chair of the WFDF Rules and Individual Events Committees from 1993-2004, and as secretary and executive director from 1998-2003, and currently as Senior Advisor and Records Keeper. He continues in his role as Director for Special Projects for the PDGA. An Eagle Scout in his youth, Stork has written numerous articles and books on disc sports, and he is credited with framing Ultimate’s defining "Spirit of the Game" philosophy which has guided play since the late 1970s. He has been inducted into the Frisbee, Disc Golf, Freestyle, and Ultimate Halls of Fame. Outside of his disc sports career, he served as a college lecturer in sociology and as a writer and consultant. Stork received his PhD in sociology from Rutgers University and is a long-time resident of Pasadena, CA.

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Calvin Cheng (HKG)

Member

Calvin Cheng is President of the Flying Disc Federation of Hong Kong. He started playing ultimate frisbee in 1997 in Vancouver and led his school team to win back-to-back high school championships. He also represented British Columbia in the Nationals at the same time. At the University of Toronto, he was the captain of the varsity badminton team and also played with the college ultimate club team at the US Regionals. After university, he returned to Hong Kong China where he joined the Hong Kong China team in 2009 and led the team to two straight China Open titles. He is a core member of the Mixed Nuts club team which has won numerous tournaments in Asia, including Manila Spirits. He later captained the Hong Kong China open team for AOUC held in Hong Kong in 2015 and AOUC held in Shanghai in 2019. He has been named MVP across tournaments in Asia several times from 2009 to date. Calvin is a solicitor in Hong Kong China and a Council member of the Law Society of Hong Kong, overseeing the solicitors practice in Hong Kong. He received a JD degree and Postgraduate Certificate of Laws from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a BS in Human Biology from the University of Toronto. He grew up in Vancouver and now lives in Hong Kong.

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Jim Elsner (USA)

Member

Jim is a noted atmospheric scientist and “storm chaser” who has studied tropical cyclones and tornadoes and the influence of climate change. He embraced flying disc culture when introduced to his college frisbee club at UWM in 1977 and became an avid disc golfer (placing in the top 20 in the 1983 and 1984 PDGA World Championships) and co-organized the Frisbee and Hacky Sack Festival in Milwaukee in 1985. After moving to Florida in 1990, he has dedicated his frisbee energy since 2003 to promoting Double Disc Court (also called Escape!! frisbee) in person and through his youtube channel and is still ranked as one of the top 20 DDC players in the world. Jim is a Professor Emeritus at Florida State University and earned his BS and MS in Meteorology and PhD in Geosciences from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He currently lives in Tallahassee, FL, USA.

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Catherine Fidd (USA)

Member

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Rob McLeod (CAN)

Member

Rob McLeod is Chair of the Overall Committee and an award-winning motivational speaker and frisbee ambassador with 13 Guinness World Records, 21 WFDF World Records and 14 World Championships in the sport of flying disc. He is on a mission to inspire resilience, confidence, kindness, and movement. Recognized as the 2021 PDGA/EDGE Educator of the Year and a 2020 Calgary Booster Club Honoured Athletic Leader, Rob has visited 600+ schools, empowered over 200,000 students, and champions healthy screen habits and physical literacy through high-energy, interactive talks and workshops. His goal is to introduce frisbee to as many people as possible and bring together the various disc sport organizations throughout all the communities in order to bring their efforts together and maximize the resources and human power to grow the sport of flying disc.

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